우리나라는 중앙집권적으로 교육과정을 개발하여 각 급 학교에서 실행하도록 하고 있다.이러한 국가수준 교육과정의 의도가 실제 학교현장에서는 제대로 전달되지 못 하거나,교사의 수동적인 태도와 전문성의 저하로 인해 교사는 의도된 교육과정을 포 함하는 내용의 일부만을 학생들에게 전달하는 경우가 많다(이향식,1996).이러한 까 닭에 학생의 특성과 수준을 고려하는 학교중심교육과정(school-based curriculum)을 강조하게 되었다(권요한 외,2001).학교중심교육과정 개발은 학교가 더 많은 자율성 을 가지고 교육과정을 계획하고 설계하는 것(Marsh,1990)으로,특정 프로그램의 교 수-학습을 구성하는데 가장 적합하다.학교중심교육과정의 운영,특히 교육내용의 재 구성에 있어서 교사의 역할은 더욱 중요하다 하겠다.
To implement the visual culture education, this study specifically discussed about the reconstructing of art curriculum in a level of teacher, who is an educational practitioner, and aimed to suggest one instruction model available for being helpful to teachers, who attempt to introduce the popularly visual culture, which is close to students' life, to the school art-education field. For this, first of all, it considered about necessity for the reconstructing of curriculum by teacher, about teacher's practical knowledge for reconstructing of the curriculum, about strategy for reconstructing according to a model of curriculum development, and about the instruction model in visual culture education & critical thinking ability, and in visual culture education & cognitive perspective. As a result of examining, a teacher needs to have practical knowledge in order to be a person of the reconstructing in true curriculum available for taking the initiative in learning based on right understanding about the curriculum. Next, through discussion about visual culture education in the content sphere of the current art-education curriculum, it elicited direction as saying of requiring to reconstruct with the aim of strengthening critical thinking ability. Finally, as one tool for implementing visual culture education based on the aim of strengthening critical thinking ability, it suggested the advertisement-design instruction model centering on question and answer method.